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| e1acb84 | I drove to the bar Theodosha had called from and parked on the street. The bar was a gray, dismal place, ensconced like a broken matchbox under a dying oak tree, its only indication of gaiety a neon beer sign that flickered in one window. She was at a table in back, the glow of the jukebox lighting her face and the deep blackness of her hair. She tipped a collins glass to her mouth, her eyes locked on mine. "Let me take you home," I said. ".. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 0e1f37a | I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 463e080 | He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed--pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 1f1cf41 | Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 38eedf3 | Gamblers and lovers pay big dues and enjoy limited consolations. But sometimes they are enough. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 64b2365 | Baptized Christians ran the ovens in the camps. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 40a372b | At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 37088d9 | He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c64d9c3 | They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They | James Lee Burke | ||
| bd90dc4 | At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 993aafd | when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5c1bfb5 | Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame? | James Lee Burke | ||
| eb73211 | I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a4ca216 | What we do is punish the people who are available," she said." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 164836c | symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7d779da | But the past is the past, and you don't get it back. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 6de96b5 | Jolie Blon," the most haunting and unforgettable lament I have ever heard." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 58c0cfa | I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 8a1d229 | War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| cbe87b3 | He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| f83c8aa | You are a man without a heart, Dr. Leddell. And you, Mary Cooper, are a meddler. A woman can be forgiven for many transgressions but not that. I have been called worse. And by people I hold in more esteem than you. Ha! I pity the poor man unfortunate enough to marry you someday. He writes his own ticket to hell. If he does, then I'll make that hell as pleasant a place for him as I know how. But I won't deceive him and tell him it's heaven, .. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 10df816 | Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi, | Donalyn Miller | ||
| fd8be9b | The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid. | time future unafraid wolf-by-the-ears house quiet | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 6d86684 | You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| ddb885b | Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness. | friends strength forgiveness | Ann Rinaldi | |
| fa41167 | You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 49ad936 | There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| d1094d4 | I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| e806612 | He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion. | language | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 5f32900 | The president's philandering aside, unquestionably the biggest change between the Kennedy | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 5ac5322 | The warm sand did feel good on my feet and now I was almost glad that we didn't have to spend another night on the hard, wet boards of the raft. | Theodore Taylor | ||
| 5183af8 | a Virgin Islan'." "Then you are American," I said. I remembered from school that we had bought the Virgins from Denmark. He laughed. "I suppose, young bahss. I nevar gave it much thought. I sail all d'islan's, as well as Venezuela, Colombo, Panama.... I jus' nevar gave" | Theodore Taylor | ||
| db2914f | After Lincoln became president he campaigned for colonization, and even in the midst of war with the Confederacy found time to work on the project, appointing Rev. James Mitchell as Commissioner of Emigration, in charge of finding a place to which blacks could be sent. On August 14th, 1862, he invited a group of black leaders to the White House to try to persuade them to leave the country, telling them that "there is an unwillingness on the.. | equality learning colonization genetics diversity race | Jared Taylor | |
| 62b5de2 | The musicians, who were all English, included one pianist, Theodore Ronald Brailey; three cellists, Roger Marie Bricaux, Percy Cornelius Taylor, and John Wesley Woodward; a bassist, John Frederick Preston Clark; and three violinists, John Law Hume, Georges Alexandre Krins, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley. They were brought on deck near where the lifeboats were being loaded early on to help keep morale high. As the night went on and the .. | Henry Freeman | ||
| 3026ae8 | which means "other side," the other part of the city. The view from there wasn't as good as from the fort, but curious people were there, too, just looking. Strangely," | Theodore Taylor | ||
| cde0a15 | My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee. | Dr. Taylor Reed Marshall | ||
| d8992aa | Most scandalous of all was that the Tibetan Buddhist delegation led by the Dali Lama were allowed to place an idol of Buddha on top of a Catholic tabernacle in the Chapel of San Pietro, as reported by the New York Times.130 To this idol they burned incense within a Catholic church with permission from the pope. | Dr. Taylor Reed Marshall | ||
| d6dfca2 | Theodore McCarrick is the most notorious child molester and homosexual predator of the Catholic Church, having been removed from the College of Cardinals in 2018 and from the clerical state in 2019. | Dr. Taylor Reed Marshall | ||
| 977c1f8 | I only know that when physical and emotional reserves remain unchallenged, this feeds the spiritual cancer of a life unfulfilled. -Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| f58356a | Piu in alto salivo, piu in alto andavo, piu mi era chiaro che il mondo sarebbe andato avanti a esistere anche senza di me, e che tutti gli dei sarebbero scomparsi con l'umanita. Perche sono proprio gli uomini che creano gli dei. | montagna | Reinhold Messner | |
| 2f57991 | Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering. -Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| aa72e63 | It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit? - Reinhold Messner | Bernadette McDonald | ||
| 7cc14e7 | audience looking on, and 3,700 mourners in the pews, Margaret Thatcher's taped eulogy concludes. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 737bf24 | autobiography, he claimed | Bill O'Reilly |